Flame-Throwing Robot Dog “Thermonator” Has Internet Buzzing
An Ohio company called Throwflame has introduced the “Thermonator,” a flame-throwing four-legged robot dog available for public and government purchase.
It’s called “Thermonator” ? #Robotics #flamethrower pic.twitter.com/pcBB2zGYHj
— Throwflame (@throwflame) April 19, 2024
For just under $10,000, customers can deploy their “Thermonator” via Bluetooth or WiFi connection.
The robotic dog is controlled by a cellphone app, and can run, jump and spit flames up to 30ft for about an hour.
Throwflame
Some suggested uses for the technology include:
- Wildfire Control and Prevention
- Agricultural Management
- Ecological Conservation
- Snow and Ice Removal
- Entertainment and SFX
Watch: Australian Senator Demands Elon Musk Be ‘Jailed’ For Allowing ‘Misinformation’ on X
Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie called for Elon Musk to be jailed for allowing footage of a priest being stabbed by a radical Islamist to be shared freely on the X platform.
“Elon Musk has no social conscience, or conscience whatsoever,” Lambie said Monday while speaking on ABC RN, adding it was “absolutely disgusting behaviour” to allow the graphic content to be posted on X.
Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie says Elon Musk needs to be jailed because he’s allowing too much free speech on X.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 23, 2024
“Quite frankly the bloke should be jailed, and the sooner we can bring laws in and do something about this game playing with our social media the better off we’re… pic.twitter.com/Nk5TBoYJx1
“And quite frankly the bloke should be jailed, and the sooner that we can bring rules in or do something about this sort of game playing with our social media, the better off we’re going to be,” Lambie said.
She added, “But quite frankly, the power that that man has because of that platform that he’s on, it’s got to stop. It has absolutely got to stop. But leaving that out for our kids to see, for people that were family and friends out there and just letting that run on there, once again, that bloke has no conscience. He’s an absolute friggin’ disgrace, and there’s nothing else to say about Elon Musk.”
She reiterated her sentiment on Sky News Australia on Tuesday, saying, “Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away.”
This woman has utter contempt for the Australian people
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2024
The feud between Australia’s tyrannical lawmakers and Musk began after an Assyrian Orthodox bishop in Sydney was stabbed by an Islamist during a livestreamed sermon last week.
The country’s social media regulator then ordered Musk’s platform to remove content showing the stabbing of the priest or face a daily fine of $500,000.
But X and Musk have refused to comply, arguing that Australia’s regulators don’t have the power to determine what content can be shown in other countries.
From Fortune:
Following the incident, the eSafety Commission ordered social media platforms to remove content related to the attack.
In a post on Saturday, X said it complied with the demand to remove “certain posts” in Australia, in a statement posted to the social media platform. Yet it also argued that the order was “not within the scope of Australian law,” and that it would file a legal challenge.
In that same post, X claimed that the eSafety Commission demanded the social media platform take down content for all users globally, or face daily fines of 785,000 Australian dollars ($506,000).
On Monday, an Australian court upheld the global ban until Wednesday, at which point the court would consider making the ban permanent. During the hearing, Commission lawyers argued that Australia-based users could still use virtual private networks to see the posts.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday called Musk an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he’s above the law” for refusing to take down the video and “a bloke who’s chosen ego and showing violence over common sense.”
“I think that Australians will shake their head when they think that this billionaire is prepared to go to court, fighting for the right to sow division and to show violent videos, which are very distressing,” Albanese told Sky News.
? is the only one standing up for the rights of Australians
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2024
NEW: Australian Prime Minister GOING AFTER Elon Musk, accidentally admits ? platform is the only truthful one.
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) April 22, 2024
Despite cyber regulator’s demanding the removal of posts on ?, Elon Musk refuses to bend to their demands, stating,
“It is absurd for any ONE country to attempt to… pic.twitter.com/mUx87IZHce
Musk responded to the PM’s remarks, saying, “No president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth! This platform adheres to the laws of countries in those countries, but it would be improper to extend one country’s rulings to other countries. If he want to censor things in other countries, he should bring a legal action to bear in those countries.”
Well, no president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2024
This platform adheres to the laws of countries in those countries, but it would be improper to extend one country’s rulings to other countries.
If he want to censor things in other countries, he should…
As for Senator Jacqui Lambie, she deleted her X account to boycott the platform and encouraged others to do the same.
Since the COVID plandemic, widespread censorship has become a feature, not an exception, of social media discourse in Australia.
You’ll never guess which world government makes the most official demands for censorship of individuals on social media. pic.twitter.com/ZZQaPVHhGl
— ~~datahazard~~ (@fentasyl) April 23, 2024
Children As Young As Three Were Used As ‘Guinea Pigs’ In UK Clinical Trials
The true scale of the number of clinical trials that used infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed. Documents seen by the BBC reveal a secret world of dangerous […]
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Incredible Video Details How America is in Final Days of Dems’ Cloward-Piven Strategy
A powerful clip going viral on social media explains the radical left’s Cloward-Piven strategy, and how it’s designed to bring America to its knees and collapse the current system in order to bring about a new order.
“So what exactly is the Cloward-Piven strategy? Well, it’s a strategy to speed up the fall and collapse of capitalism by systematically overwhelming the government systems with a flood of impossible demands,” explains a man in the video. “And it ends up pushing society into a crisis and economic collapse in order to, get this, bring down America and the entire capitalist system.”
Listen and Learn
— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) April 19, 2024
The Cloward-Piven Strategy pic.twitter.com/v3yeTBYCbr
He continues: “Yes. This is real. This is what they teach Cloward-Piven strategy, look it up. Now this Cloward-Piven strategy teaches people how to overwhelm the system with massive spending entitlements and debt. And the goal is literally to collapse the entire economy, wipe out the middle class, and bring a nation down to their knees begging the government to save them.”
The man goes on to detail how many of the “solutions” outlined in the strategy have been adopted by Democrat politicians, and are actively being implemented to bring about the fall of the United States.
The important breakdown was highlighted on X by Infowars’ Alex Jones,
This is so important. We are living in the final stages of this plan. The WEF great reset agenda is implementing Cloward- Piven on a global scale. The big double cross is the fact that the Ultra rich are making 99.9% of the population permanently destitute in the name of the common good. It’s a giant bait and switch.
This is so important. We are living in the final stages of this plan. The WEF great reset agenda is implementing Cloward- Piven on a global scale. The big double cross is the fact that the Ulta rich are making 99.9% of the population permanently destitute in the name of the… https://t.co/SY9VMWx3Wr
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 20, 2024
NYC Squatter Finally Arrested After Viral Standoff with Homeowner
A squatter who had a homeowner arrested in NYC last month has been arrested and faced a judge in Queens County Criminal Court on Thursday.
Prosecutors are charging Brian Rodriguez with burglary, grand larceny, and other crimes and he faces up to 15 years if convicted.
“Criminal charges will be pursued when you unlawfully occupy someone else’s home,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.
Rodriguez last month invaded and occupied the $1 million home of Queens homeowner Adele Andaloro in the middle of the night on Feb. 6 and refused to leave. She was in the process of selling the property she had inherited from her mother.
After Andaloro tried changing the locks of her home to drive out the squatter, Rodriguez called the police and had her arrested after a tense standoff, which was captured on video.
?BREAKING: A woman gets arrested for removing squatters out of her $1,000,000 house in Queens, NY.
— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) March 19, 2024
Adel Andaloro inherited her family’s home in Flushing, Queens after her parents passed away and was in the process of selling it when she noticed that someone illegally moved in.… pic.twitter.com/bMqitIXlrk
“In New York, squatters have rights after 30 days. It’s against the law for homeowners to change the locks, remove their belongings or shut off the utilities. It’s handled as a civil court matter in the state, so police can’t remove squatters,” ABC News 7 reported.
The absurd nature of the incident quickly gave the story international attention and prompted fierce political backlash.
“I’m really fearful that these people are going to get away with stealing my home,” Andaloro told Eyewitness News at the time.
“It’s not fair that I, the homeowner, [have] to be going through this,” she added.
The unlawful eviction charge against Andaloro was eventually dropped and the Queens DA began investigating Rodriguez.
“You can’t walk in when it’s not yours and claim they have a right to be there,” said DA Katz. “I thank the media for all the attention that they have given to this story and for being here today because I do think it’s an important message to send.”
But Andaloro’s home is still occupied: it was later discovered that Rodriguez had been renting out rooms of the home to other people, so Andaloro may need to take them to court to evict them.
In the wake of the squatting crisis that’s begun to plague New York, state lawmakers filed four state laws that would close the loopholes that the squatters have exploited to occupy homes, namely the rule that allows squatters to stay after living in the home for at least 30 days.
TikTok Announces Crack Down on “Conspiracy Theories”
As of May 17, TikTok will start implementing new rules affecting content appearing on the app’s For You feed (FYF), and the changes are prompted by concerns about so-called “harmful speech” and “misinformation.”
FYF is vital for the visibility of content, since it opens and plays videos automatically when the app is launched, something TikTok refers to as its “personalized recommendation system.”
A post on the company’s site titled, “For You feed Eligibility Standards,” reveals that content that is deemed as health or news “misinformation” will be censored from this tab more stringently going forward.
On the health side, TikTok looks to clamp down on anything from videos promoting “unproven treatments,” dieting and weight loss, plastic surgery (unless related risks are included as well), videos allegedly misrepresenting scientific findings, to the very broadly defined content that is considered misleading, and “could potentially” cause harm to public health.
Clarity is not the announcement’s strong suit, and so the new rules will tackle even such things as “overgeneralized mental health information.” Also in the FYF “doghouse” will be content that’s found to be too focused on “sadness” (including “sharing sad quotes”).
Then there’s the blog post’s “explanation” that some types of content “may be fine if seen occasionally, but problematic if viewed in clusters.”
What this actually means is control of users’ exposure to content at its finest: “We will interrupt repetitive content patterns to ensure it is not viewed too often,” TikTok said.
When it comes to hate speech, “outlawed” is now even “some content” that is deemed to be making insinuations or indirect statements about protected groups – such that “may implicitly demean” them.
Dangerous activities and challenges are also banned from FYF – apparently only if they lead to “moderate physical harm.” And if you’d like your videos of people “wearing only nipple covers or underwear that does not cover the majority of the buttocks” to be featured, well, you’re also out of luck.
Other than disappearing from FYF, users who repeatedly post speech offending to TikTok’s new rules content will get deranked in the app’s search.
There’s sexually suggestive and graphic content (including fictional graphic violence), also defined in some interesting, at times overly vague, at others oddly specific ways.
And, naturally, the new rules deal with “misinformation” and “election integrity.”
In the first category, “not eligible for FYF” are “conspiracy theories that are unfounded and claim that certain events or situations are carried out by covert or powerful groups, such as ‘the government’ or a ‘secret society’.”
The second seeks to remove “unverified claims about an election, such as a premature claim that all ballots have been counted or tallied; statements that significantly misrepresent authoritative civic information, such as a false claim about the text of a parliamentary bill.”